“What our societies desperately need, therefore, are common objects of love that bind us together but inhibit our tendencies to idolatry.”
“The beauty and promise of place lies in its capacity to turn our eyes away from ourselves and our imagined images of ourselves to the reality of the world and the contingency of our place within it. The love of place is inherently modest, and therein lies its promise.”
So argues Australian theologian Andrew Errington at ABC Religion and Ethics. You may read his entire lecture here.
I am a historian. I am particularly interested in "place," the American West, American Indians, religion, the environment, books and libraries, and Christian theology and spirituality. For more on me, see About. For stuff by me, see Miscellaneous and also my webpage http://douganderson.academia.edu.
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